Replacing just one calorie-laden, sugary drink with water may help shed extra kilos, as well as improve overall health, a new study has found.
Replacing just one calorie-laden, sugary drink with water may help shed extra kilos, as well as improve overall health, a new study has found. Consuming additional calories from sugary beverages like soda, energy drinks, and sweetened coffee can increase risk of weight gain and obesity, as well as Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
“Regardless of how many servings of sugar-sweetened beverages you consume, replacing even just one serving can be of benefit,” said Kiyah J. Duffey, from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univer-sity (Virginia Tech).
Researchers modelled the effect of replacing about 230 ml sugar-sweetened beverage with a 230 ml serving of water, based on the daily dietary intake of US adults aged 19 and older, retrieved from the 2007-2012 National Health and Nutrition Examina-tion Surveys. They showed that this one-for-one drink swap could reduce daily calories and the prevalence of obesity in populations that consume sugary beverages.
“We found that among US adults who consume one serving of sugar-sweetened beverages per day, replacing that drink with water lowered the per cent of calories coming from drinks from 17 to 11 per cent,” Duffey said.
